Summer Field Trips, School Visits, and Outreach

Most popular book at every school visit,
with every grade. I kid you not!
This is a record for posterity and my own peace of mind, organizing all my school visits. I don't post this until after the visits, so I'm not making a record of which classes are visiting me when for the perusal of the internets.
  • May 26, Thursday
    • West Side, 2nd grade, 3 classes, 67 kids (1-2:45)
      • Tour w/Jess (2nd grade community walk tour)
      • Scavenger Hunt
      • Summer preview and storytime (flyers handed out to teachers)
        • Read-Aloud
          • Mother Bruce
          • Hoot Owl
          • Frog on a Log
        • Nonfiction
          • Koala Hospital
          • Glow
          • Free spirit doodles
        • Chapter books
          • MVP: Gold Medal Mess
          • Fluffy strikes back
          • Stick Cat
          • Race the Wild
          • Haunted Library
          • West Meadows Detectives
          • Great Pet Escape
          • Hamster Princess of Mice and Magic
          • Sofia Martinez my family adventure
          • My pet human
          • Princess in Black and the hungry bunny horde
          • Olive and Beatrix
          • Stinky Cecil
          • Scary Tales
          • Mr. Ball An Egg-celent adventure
          • Kit-Kit-Kittens
          • Head lice
          • Dino-Mike
          • My life in pictures
      • We did our regular community friends - gingerbread people - craft, but I let them take them home instead of putting them up in the library.
  • May 27, Friday
    • Tibbets, 2nd grade, 3 classes, 52 kids (12-1:30)
      • Tour (2nd grade community walk tour)
      • Library cards (pre-signed)
      • Summer preview and storytime (flyers handed out to teachers)
        • see above
      • We did our regular community friends - gingerbread people - craft, but I let them take them home instead of putting them up in the library.
  • May 31, Tuesday (off-site at West Side)
    • Summer preview and storytime/booktalking (flyers handed out to teachers)
      • samples of summer materials, promote programs, remind teachers of library resources
    • 1st grade, (8:45-9:15)
      • use 2nd grade list
    • 4th grade (9:40-10:10)
      • Use 3rd grade and add
        • Gorillas up close
        • Alabaster Shadows
        • Courageous princess
        • Terrors from the deep
        • Extreme planet
        • Alamo All-Stars
        • Wishing day
    • 5th grade (10:15-10:40)
      • Use 4th grade and add
        • Slacker
        • Awkward
        • Worst night ever
        • Jewelry tips and tricks
        • Get a job making stuff to sell
        • Nail Care
        • Guts and Glory: Vikings
        • Rutabaga adventure chef
        • To kick a corpse
        • Infestation
    • Kindergarten (11:15-11:45)
      • additional read-alouds
        • I will chomp you!
        • Land shark
  • June 1, Wednesday
    • West Side, 3rd grade, 2 classes (9:30-11)
      • Tour w/Jess
      • Scavenger Hunt
      • Browsing and checkout
      • Butterfly (superhero) masks
      • Summer preview and booktalks (flyers handed out to teachers)
        • Use 2nd grade list and add
          • Trouble with ants
          • FukuFuku
          • Emily Feather
          • Magical animal adoption agency
          • Cici a fairy's tale
          • Science Comics: Dinosaurs
          • Living fossils
          • Mission Mumbai
          • Save me a seat
  • June 1, Wednesday (off-site at Tibbets)
    • Summer preview and storytime/booktalking (flyers handed out to teachers)
      • samples of summer materials, promote programs, remind teachers of library resources
    • 20 minutes per grade, use lists from earlier visits
      • 1st grade
      • 4th grade
      • 5th grade
      • Kindergarten
      • 3rd grade
  • June 2, Thursday (off-site at Jackson)
    • Summer preview and storytime/booktalking (flyers handed out to teachers)
      • samples of summer materials, promote programs, remind teachers of library resources
    • Half an hour per grade, use lists from earlier visits
      • 2nd grade
      • 3rd grade
      • Kindergarten
      • 1st grade
      • 4th grade
      • 5th grade
  • June 7, Tuesday
    • West Side, 3rd grade, 2 classes (9:30-11)
      • Tour
      • Scavenger Hunt
      • Browsing and checkout
      • Butterfly (superhero) masks
      • Summer preview and booktalks (flyers handed out to teachers)
        • Use 2nd grade list and add
          • Trouble with ants
          • FukuFuku
          • Emily Feather
          • Magical animal adoption agency
          • Cici a fairy's tale
  • June 7, Tuesday
    • OPtions (homeschool/charter school)
      • I gave a brief talk to the younger group (preschool/2nd grade) and the older group (3rd/5th). I had a selection of books for them to look at, check out, and summer reading materials. This was about 30-40 kids total. I was a bit burned out by this point.
  • June 8, Wednesday
    • Middle School (Gold Team 6th grade, 7th grade lunch)
      • I did a brief, 20 minute talk to 6th grade and then passed out fine-free coupons and let them look at the books. Meanwhile, Jess set up in the cafeteria and handed out fine-free coupons. We had our tablet to check out books to the 7th graders, but nobody had brought a card. Next year they might have a better idea we're coming though!
      • These are (most) of the books we brought, listed on Pinterest. Mainly the 6th grade titles, because those I booktalk.
  • June 9, Thursday
    • Middle School (Trailblazer Team 6th grade, 7th grade lunch, 8th grade lunch)
      • Same thing again, except we'd already seen these 7th graders. 8th graders were really uninterested, but I walked some books around to the tables and got a few sparks of interest.

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